Day 30

Question 1

TO BE RIGHT/WRONG ABOUT

Answer 1

To have a correct or incorrect opinion or prediction about a person or something.

1. You were right about the weather getting worse.
2. I was wrong about thinking he would come to the party.
3. She was right about that restaurant being excellent.
4. It was so refreshing to be right about the candidate selected for the Chair of the board.
5. I was wrong about how the situation should have been handled.
6. Twas right about him, because he was really a good guy.

Question 2

TIT FOR TAT

Answer 2

Responding to someone’s action by doing the same thing to them, often in a negative way.

1. He insulted me, so I insulted him back - it was tit for tat.
2. Stop playing tit for tat with your sister and be the mature one.
3. Their business rivalry became a tit for tat game of price cutting.
4. There have been the usual tit-for-tat assassinations by rival gangs.
5. The two countries have expelled another diplomat following a round of tit-for-tat expulsions.
6. They are involved in a tit-for-tat rivalry.

Question 3

AN EYE FOR AN EYE

Answer 3

The idea that punishment should equal the crime; if someone hurts you, you hurt them back equally.

1. I don’t believe in an eye for an eye - forgiveness is better.
2. Living by an eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
3. Instead of seeking an eye for an eye, they chose to resolve their conflict peacefully.
4. An eye for an eye is no way to run a civilized justice system.
5. An eye for an eye is not always a good principle to live by.
6. If a state punishes a murderer by death it’s an eye for an eye.